This agent's genome includes a poly-T SLIP element needed for crucial changes in reading frame. It uses Vif to arrest the cell cycle at G2/M, and Gag is used to make structural elements. This agent can evade the immune system thanks to variable cleavage of a surface protein that helps recognize and dock its target cells; that protein is called (*) gp120. Azidothymidine, a classic drug to treat infections by this pathogen, is a reverse transcriptase inhibitor that prevents it from replicating and further destroying those target CD4 T-cells. For 10 points, name this path
This agent's genome includes a poly-T SLIP element needed for crucial changes in reading frame. It uses Vif to arrest the cell cycle at G2/M, and Gag is used to make structural elements. This agent can evade the immune system thanks to variable cleavage of a surface protein that helps recognize and dock its target cells; that protein is called (*) gp120. Azidothymidine, a classic drug to treat infections by this pathogen, is a reverse transcriptase inhibitor that prevents it from replicating and further destroying those target CD4 T-cells. For 10 points, name this pathogen whose destruction of the immune system leads to AIDS.
This agent's genome includes a poly-T SLIP element needed for crucial changes in reading frame.
{human immunodeficiency virus} [do not accept or prompt on “{acquired immune deficiency syndrome}”]